Dave Eggers Quotes

I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.

Dave Eggers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 12, 1970

Topics

TeacherRememberI CanFirstPeach

Elon Musk is a cool cookie.

John Collison

CoolCookieElon Musk

I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

StoryDoingFindNowWantChristmas

This is not a family of privilege by any stretch of the imagination. Our family is very low key.

Maya Soetoro-Ng

FamilyImaginationKeyPrivilegeLow

I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they're overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful.

Tori Amos

HurtI CanYoungSeeVicePainful

When you try to grasp the way the Western world is going, you see that we are on a ratchet towards a surveillance state, which is coming to include the whole population in its surveillance. This is our reward for accepting the restraints on the way we live now.

Tom Stoppard

LiveWorldYouRewardWayTry

If you can play well in the studio, you can play well on stage.

Ritchie Blackmore

YouPlayStageWellStudio

Do you know what White House correspondents call actors who pose as reporters? Anchors.

Jay Leno

YouHouseWhiteKnowPoseCall

I was a fashion assistant. I bought the fabric. I made sure that everything was smooth in the workroom. And I scrambled all over London on the Tube looking for buttons. It was great.

Jaye Davidson

GreatFashionLookingLondonOver

If there's one person in the world with whom a chemistry read is unnecessary, it's Rachel McAdams.

Domhnall Gleeson

WorldPersonChemistryReadWhom

I think it would be nice to be a prince.

Dee Dee Ramone

ThinkBe NiceNiceWouldPrince

I'm just physically stupid.

Peter Capaldi

StupidJustPhysically

I don't know that you can set out to be a brand. For us, it happened very organically, and we never rushed it or leaned on it too hard. I felt a true culture had started to emerge several years into the Machine, so we started trying some things, starting with simple stuff like cool merch.

Scott Borchetta

CultureSimpleCoolBrandYouKnow

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